US Patent Issued to Teledyne FLIR Defense on July 8 for "Adaptive thrust vector unmanned aerial vehicle" (Massachusetts, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,296, issued on July 8, was assigned to Teledyne FLIR Defense Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Adaptive thrust vector unmanned aerial vehicle" was invented by Helen Greiner (Wayland, Mass.), Felipe Bohorquez (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexey Zaparovanny (Westford, Mass.) and Kenneth D. Sebesta (Winchester, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for unmanned delivery of an item to a desired delivery location includes receiving, at an unmanned vehicle, first data representative of an approximate geographic location of the desired delivery location, receiving, at the unmanned vehicle, second data representative of a fiducial expected to be de...